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GT Software continues to deliver easier ways to bring mainframe apps and data into the wider enterprise, including mobile, with updates to its Ivory Service integration tools. Ivory Service Architect 5.0 lets IT better support mobile initiatives and modern integration needs

Software professionals have followed the tenants of the ‘application lifecycle’ for years. But in a new world of hybrid computing, SaaS and cloud, understanding an ‘integration lifecycle’ may hold the keys to future IT success. Scribe Software’s Brendan Peterson explains it all to IDN.

Dell Boomi’s Atomsphere iPaaS is powering a menu of enterprise-class software and data cloud apps and integration services from UK-based AgilityWorks. As a result, European customers can use AgilityWorks’ Connected Cloud Enterprise to integrate their on-premises apps and databases with Salesforce.com, Workday, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics.

The rapidly-developing world of clouds is pushing developers and IT operations to design fast – and deliver even faster. A new concept of ‘cloud blueprinting’ is helping IT keep pace – and even recapture more time and freedom to innovate. Accenture’s Rodrigo Flores explains, and even shares some examples.

Running applications for over a million customers in 190 countries, Amazon Web Services is hosting data and business logic in various back-end services, such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS Lambda.

Software AG is looking to make it easier to provide business insights that can predict the future. The company is adding predictive analytics capabilities to its Digital Business Platform under a partnership with Zementis, Inc.

At today’s speed of business, the need to bridge the gap between new ideas and their execution is increasing. The cloud has provided bridges for apps and data. And now, as Oracle’s Mala Ramakrishnan tells IDN, the cloud is delivering the latest bridge – a new business process automation platform to let companies cope with frequent, even ad hoc, changes – and drive faster innovation.

The current state of the IoT is a kind of Dickensian dichotomy. It’s not quite "best of times, worst of times," but it’s true there is both excitement and concern. IDN looks at the study by Progress Software and Harbor Research that surveyed 700 developers.

If the SoapUI open source tool is as SmartBear Software describes it – a ‘Swiss army knife of testing’ – it has several new blades to give a wide array of API developers more powerful and integrated testing and monitoring options. SoapUI also adds support for Swagger 2.0, JSON and MQTT.

CloudBees Inc. is taking steps to make sure that Jenkins, one of the top "go-to" tools for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) of enterprise software, can reliably deliver more security, performance and availability.

Docker Inc., the group behind the revolution in software containers, is moving beyond open source with its first wave of commercial products and services. To show it’s serious about a ‘paid’ model, Docker has secured reseller agreements with Amazon Web Services (AWS), IBM, and Microsoft.